Group 5 : Hao ran 2E3 : Water pollution in Citarum River, Indonesia

Indonesia has the one of the largest population as well as one of the largest river. But research has said that it is also one of the most dirt and polluted river. As this result , many people has water related disease and pregnant lady would affect the baby in the womb as the contaminated water is also consumed by the baby . 
This is the result because many people does not care whether they pollute the river so they just throw rubbish like plastics bags , paper and shirts or pants they do not want anymore . But even so , they still do not bother about it . 
More than 500 thousand people are directly affected by the pollution at Citarum River. Meanwhile, more than 5 million people are indirectly affected because of the chemical pollutant thrown to the river and carried away by the stream. The river contains a level of lead, aluminum, manganese and iron that, on several occasions, are higher than the average level. The source of pollution was originated from the industrial and domestic activities around the river.
Roughly more than 200 million people's health are now threatened because of the pollution in developing countries," said the survey results .Chairman of the Indonesia Green Institute Chalid Muhammad, asserted that the severity of Citarum River pollution is caused by factories that dispose their waste to the river.
Citarum River is listed along with the most polluted and toxic locations in the world, including Chernobyl, a city in Ukraine currently contaminated with radiation that resulted from the explosion of a nuclear reactor in 1986. 

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So this is the most polluted river in the world .